Folks,
im building a 365 (6L) cleveland (strange capacity i know but its to meet class capacity limits), and im wondering if anyone has had similar experience with this combo.
The crank is ground to chev bigend journal size so i need suggestions for a H beam rod/forged piston combo to suit the cleveland block, any ideas?
Obviously its a chev style rod and piston but which brand or part number will suit this combo? or will i have to get custom decked pistons to suit?
Any help would be appreciated!

Folks,
im building a 365 (6L) cleveland (strange capacity i know but its to meet class capacity limits), and im wondering if anyone has had similar experience with this combo.
The crank is ground to chev bigend journal size so i need suggestions for a rod/piston combo to suit the cleveland block, any ideas? or will i have to get custom decked pistons?

Can you just slap on 3V's and keep your standard stroke? Or do you need factory irons?

Which class is this one? Will they rip off the heads and check? If the class is up to and including 6 litre's would'nt you be better off going the tried and proven displacement's? EG 351 stock stroke 6 inch rod or plus 30 in bore. Sounds like your heads are where your power will be coming from just mate it all up.
AZZA

Folks,
im building a 365 (6L) cleveland (strange capacity i know but its to meet class capacity limits), and im wondering if anyone has had similar experience with this combo.
The crank is ground to chev bigend journal size so i need suggestions for a H beam rod/forged piston combo to suit the cleveland block, any ideas?
Obviously its a chev style rod and piston but which brand or part number will suit this combo? or will i have to get custom decked pistons to suit?
Any help would be appreciated!

You may be able to offset grind a factory Cleveland crank and use 6.0" Chevy rods and any of a number of pistons to suit. You're looking at a stroke of 3.585" to give you 365.8 CID, 366 is 6L.

Something else to consider is a Dart block, building a Clevor using a 4.155" bore and a 3.37" destroker crankshaft. The bigger bore will help the Cleveland heads breathe much better.

Another option would be to use a factory Cleveland block and sleeve it. Then overbore it to 4.080" and you have a 366 with a factory stock stroke Cleveland 3.500" crank. You can easily get custom pistons to fit. The larger bore will work better with 4V heads!

You may be able to offset grind a factory Cleveland crank and use 6.0" Chevy rods and any of a number of pistons to suit. You're looking at a stroke of 3.585" to give you 365.8 CID, 366 is 6L.

Something else to consider is a Dart block, building a Clevor using a 4.155" bore and a 3.37" destroker crankshaft. The bigger bore will help the Cleveland heads breathe much better.

Another option would be to use a factory Cleveland block and sleeve it. Then overbore it to 4.080" and you have a 366 with a factory stock stroke Cleveland 3.500" crank. You can easily get custom pistons to fit. The larger bore will work better with 4V heads!

:davis:

Thanks Davis,
yes ive already got a 4MAB crank knife edged and offset ground to 3.58 with chev 2.10 B/E, which i picked up very cheaply.
6" rods were my choice now ive got to work out which chev piston will give me the correct compression height!
Cheers.

Thanks Davis,
yes ive already got a 4MAB crank knife edged and offset ground to 3.58 with chev 2.10 B/E, which i picked up very cheaply.
6" rods were my choice now ive got to work out which chev piston will give me the correct compression height!
Cheers.

Rather than use a chev piston which will need flycutting how about this.Given that you have the crank and rods already then if are working within the standard architecture of the block then a piston height of 1.41 is required with a six inch rod.The closest piston to this in the ford range would be something like anACL or hypatec piston ,the type which allows you to use 302 clev rods with a standard 3.5 inch stroke. The comp height on these is 1.425 which means that theoretically on a standard 9.2 block they will be proud of the deck by some 15 thou.The tops of the pistons could easily be decked to suit.